How SRE Teams Use Capacity Planning to Prevent Outages

Episode 39 of The Site Reliability Podcast with Fexingo dives into capacity planning as a proactive SRE practice. Lucas and Luna explore how teams at companies like Google and Netflix use trend analysis, load testing, and headroom budgeting to avoid capacity-related outages. They discuss a real-world case from 2025 where a major streaming service averted a Super Bowl crash by scaling capacity weeks in advance. The episode explains the difference between reactive and proactive capacity planning, the role of predictive modeling, and how error budgets tie into headroom decisions. Listeners will learn concrete metrics (like peak-to-average ratio and utilization targets) and hear why capacity planning is as much about culture as it is about tools. A must for SREs, platform engineers, and anyone responsible for keeping services up during traffic spikes. #SRE #CapacityPlanning #SiteReliabilityEngineering #Uptime #IncidentPrevention #Google #Netflix #LoadTesting #PredictiveModeling #Infrastructure #CloudComputing #Technology #ProductionEngineering #Scalability #TrafficSpikes #ErrorBudgets #FexingoBusiness #BusinessPodcast Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo